Leslie W. Friedman

Leslie W. Friedman fused glass art Cerulean Gallery Amarillo Texas

Leslie W. Friedman

“Although surrounded all my life by a family of painters, mypassion for working with glass has evolved from my earlierefforts in many other artistic media – painting and graphicdesign, fabric, and clay.

Working now primarily in hot-fused glass and stainedglass, my pieces range from contemporary andexpressionistic graphics to landscape design. Glass workallows me the flexibility to create the crisp, bold,expressive splashes of color of my contemporary piecesand the muted, naturalistic hues of my organic landscapeforms. In all instances I strive to develop works that areboth representational and strongly emotive.Each fused-glass piece is an evolving process from asimple thought or sketch to the layering of textured glassand color to create an imagined finished piece. Then only after high temperature kiln firing the individual glasslayers fuse together to a complete final image. Thefrequent unpredictability of the final heating variable often tempers or enhances the original design intent of an imagined piece, and the results regularly surprise andgratify me.”

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Leslie Friedman’s passion for abstract expressionistic glasswork is rooted in over 35 years of design and graphic experimentation in a wide variety of arts media. A graduate of Texas Tech University with a Bachelors in Design, Leslie has spent a lifetime honing her artistic talents in painting, graphic design, interior design, mixed media, and a full-range of clay and pottery work, including free-form Raku figures, before turning her attention fulltime to glasswork.

The resulting stained-glass and fused-glass works she now creates at her home studio in Dallas, TX, represents a distillation and refinement of her many years’ experience in divergent art forms. Leslie’s recent work evokes a lifelong ambition to create artwork that synthesizes immediacy and substance with evocativeness and meaning, while retaining a lively and playful insouciance and an overarching feeling of “fun” in her pieces.

AWARDS

Niche Awards Finalist 2011: Philadelphia, PA

Mayor’s Choice Award 2012: Art on the Greene, Arlington, TX

Best of Show in Glass 2012: Dallas Indie Festival, Dallas, TX

Best of Show in Glass 2012: The Woodlands Art Festival, Woodland, TX

Best of Show in Glass 2013: Art and Air Festival, Webster Groves, MO

2006 – Present, Represented by Cerulean Gallery

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